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by barsonme 9y ago
Most of that stuff can be cycled through, though. For example, I buy ammo in bulk but shoot through it so it doesn't sit around.
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by barsonme 9y ago
and roundabouts! physical obstacles always seem to work best, for some reason ;)
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by barsonme 9y ago
Kinda felt this was inevitable, but man the outrage over it was ridiculous. Programmers can be such children sometimes. One moment we hate binaries, the next we love them. One moment compiling from source is a badge of honor, the next it&#x
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by barsonme 9y ago
> doing all kinds of weird house-keeping and having to randomly boot from a USB stick to rescue my system from some update with untested consequences Weird! I ran dev versions of everything, updated once every couple days, and can only r
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by barsonme 9y ago
> This seems like the root of your issue. I'd do lots of things if I could, but I don't rag on all of them.
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by barsonme 9y ago
I don't think it's moralizing to acknowledge that certain career choices lend themselves to vanity. I mean, we can come up with other less-than-desirable traits for other careers like programming, can't we?
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by barsonme 9y ago
I can agree with the extrovert/autonomy part. To this, though > Is wanting to be a YouTube channel host really a marker of vanity? I'd say it's a good indicator. Not every channel will be like https://www.youtub
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by barsonme 9y ago
I'm just relaying the perceptions of a teacher who's been teaching children since the '80s ;-)
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by barsonme 9y ago
All of the above, although I think millennials and Gen Z are demonstrably worse when it comes to vanity. My mother's a 2nd grade teacher and does the usual "what do you want to be when you grow up?" bit each year. The last co
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by barsonme 9y ago
> You could get a margage if you have never borrowed money in your life but have a stable income. Same in the US, although it's a bit of a pain in the ass. It's my understanding, though, (correct me if I'm wrong!) that Ger
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by barsonme 9y ago
I like the other commenter's remarks about warrants. > are you more scared about data security in an online identity provider provided by the government or Facebook et. al.? Fair question. I'd still choose Facebook, mostly beca
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by barsonme 9y ago
Well, yeah. I can choose to not use Facebook (for the most part). I can't choose to not use the federal government. Plus, disliking and being wary of government is quintessentially American—it goes back to our roots as a country. As an
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by barsonme 9y ago
If you frequent online forums for hobbies that have lots of regulations, you'll run into this a lot. It's mostly to remind people to not trust advice on the internet. While the person giving legal advice might be correct, they hav
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by barsonme 9y ago
I dunno, I kinda feel like this one is pretty clear-cut: 40 months in prison versus losing your job...
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by barsonme 9y ago
Especially since a _ton_ of jobs were cut almost at once in the early '90s.
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by barsonme 9y ago
Yep yep yep. I wasn't alive in the '70s and '80s, but that's still a big part of our culture and history up here in the greater Seattle area.
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by barsonme 9y ago
Obviously I don't foresee Amazon tanking any time soon, but if/when they do I can't imagine how it'd do anything other than ruin Seattle, just like the exodus of automobile manufacturers started the decline of Detroit in
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by barsonme 9y ago
See, this is what I mean when even libertarians can't agree what libertarianism means ;)
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by barsonme 9y ago
I believe it does have the general premise of very limited government, though.
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by barsonme 9y ago
> Somehow because he has particular views of the equality of men and women, it should give him an above average amount of will power to stop himself from temptation? I don't know. From my own reading of her article, it seemed like h
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by barsonme 9y ago
That's fair, and I'll concede that point. I didn't add a disclaimer ("communism (at scale...)") because I felt it'd make my comment a bit less forceful.
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by barsonme 9y ago
_Probably_ just a typo, imo. Then again, I've never found two libertarians who could agree on what being libertarian actually means, so maybe not.
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by barsonme 9y ago
Another interesting anecdote is Kai Cole (Joss Wheadon's ex-wife): http://www.thewrap.com/joss-whedon-feminist-hypocrite-infide...
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by barsonme 9y ago
Yes, they've been like that for a while. If you turn your phone horizontally it is better but still sucks. They accept PRs, though ;)
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by barsonme 9y ago
...which means (or, at least is should mean) absolutely nothing. Both Nazi and Communist regimes have killed staggering amounts of people in horrible and brutal ways. They're both repulsive. Like, who really cares whether your ideology
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by barsonme 9y ago
> the problem is that these firms are used for work that is not valued by either the customer or the implementor. Truth. I've noticed many contractors take specs _very_ literally. While that might be good in that the result won&#x27
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by barsonme 9y ago
> I think they just use India now instead. Depending who you get this could be an upgrade. I've met some damn good Indian programmers who work for contracting shops (and, sadly make way less than they would in the states). But, I&#x
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by barsonme 9y ago
some people use apps, others of us have ADHD that works just as well :-)
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by barsonme 9y ago
> i can't see how they could be more productive an experienced developer in any other current mainstream(ish) language Others mentioned overhead which is a big issue. Because Go is so simple the mental overhead of remembering how to
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by barsonme 9y ago
When I wrote my comment I was thinking more about prototyping: after I sketch a design on paper or with UML diagrams I want to write a quick prototype. Go allows me to be able to quickly and easily sketch out a design with the added benefit

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